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Here’s How Sleep Paralysis REALLY Works…This Is Freaky! By Barbara Diamond
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Have you ever gone to fall asleep or have you ever awoken from sleep, only to realize you can’t move or talk? Perhaps it feels like an unknown presence is hovering over your bed, or a weight has been sitting on your chest. It’s a condition called sleep paralysis, and it’s seriously one of the most bizarre and chilling phenomenons produced by the human brain, and anyone is susceptible. Some believe it signifies an evil presence, alien abduction, or even the Devil himself!
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According to The Sleep Paralysis Project, sleep paralysis is most closely associated with the experience of waking from sleep (or waking at the point of entering sleep) experiencing paralysis of the body. This can be accompanied by hallucinations, feelings of fear and a crushing pressure on the chest. In normal sleep, a sleeper’s body and brain activity will slow down as he or she falls into deep sleep, before speeding up again as the sleeper enters rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. It is in REM sleep that most vivid dreaming takes place. This cycle between sleep stages takes 1.5 – 2 hours and repeats several times throughout a night.
Causes of sleep paralysis include sleep deprivation, irregular sleeping patterns, and sleeping on one’s back.
In the video below from YouTube channel Woah12, you’ll learn 12 terrifying facts about sleep paralysis — including some creepy techniques used to break out of the paralysis.
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